Jubal Dike and Chris Arnold lead Panther to victory at CRCRC Electric Champs

 

The 2013 CRCRC Electric Midwest Championships at the Ohio RC Factory in Jeffersonville, OH were held January 9th-13th. There were 350+ 1/10 scale buggies, stadium trucks, SCT and 1/8 scale electric buggies in attendance for the 5 day event. Wednesday and Thursday were practice days, with a seeding round ran at the end of Thursday to set up qualifiers. Qualifying consisted of 4 rounds of qualifiers using qual points. Two rounds on Friday and two on Saturday, and then some of the lower mains were ran Saturday evening. The rest of the mains were ran on Sunday.

One of the deepest classes at the race was 2wd Stock 17.5 buggy. Panther Driver Jubal Dike has his AE B4.1 WC pretty well on point from the time he put it on the track. The first qualifier he was on TQ pace but a couple bobbles kept me from that. This left me with a 2nd for the round and John “Apple” Mcintosh as TQ. Little did we know, this was setting up to be an epic battle down to the very end! The two drivers would exchange Tq runs every other round throughout qualifying!

Triple A mains were set, John starting first on the grid and Jubal in second. At the tone for A1, John traction rolled the first corner letting Jubal by clean taking full advantage of it and never looked back taking an uncontested victory. A2 started pretty similar as John would bobble early on the first lap giving Jubal the lead once again. Jubal stretched out to a several second lead and with about a minute to go, started having some issues clearing the very large double double front section. This ultimately allowed John to catch and pass him for the lead with 2 laps to go. Jubal was able to catch back up and make an aggressive, but clean pass on him at the end of the back stretch but the front section would bite him again, giving the lead back to John who would take A2. The stage was set for A3. At the tone we took off clean and in the second corner Jubal would make a costly mistake stuffing the tube allowing the entire field to get by. Jubal was able to make several strong runs towards the front but just couldn’t stay “clean” enough to quite make it there and ended up 4th. Johnwas able to take care of business and take the win giving him the overall, Jubal 2nd and Chris Emilio in 3rd.
 

 
“John and I had an epic battle of will and abilities for 3 full days and we both congratulated each other on each of our victories. This is what racing is all about to me. Good, clean hard racing but with respect and fun at the same time. My hat is off to John for being a true sportsman through all of the races!. Congrats!” Jubal Dike
  

  

In 17.5 Stock 2wd Short Course Panther team driver Chris Arnold would Tq and dominate using Rattler SC’s with orange CSF foams in front, and Switch SC with orange CSF foams in rear. In stock 2wd Short course Chris TQ’d 3 of the 4 rounds. Chris was also the only stock SC to run 12 laps in all 4 rounds of qualifying proving Panther Tires were the fastest and most consistent tires in the class. These tires were the winning combo as Chris started on the pole and never looked back in A1 and A2 winning the first main by 9 seconds and the second main by 16 seconds.




“Panther Tires definitely gave me the traction necessary to pull of the win in stock SC at the biggest race in Midwest.” Chris Arnold 

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